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Re: Wireless bridge
From: Curtis Maurand <cmaurand () xyonet com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:13:17 -0400
Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 11:54 -0400, Peter Boone wrote:Oh I know. Luckily it's located in an industrial area just on the outskirts of the city. There isn't a lot of other WiFi (in my opinion); 3-5 total SSIDs spread across 2 of the 3 physical channels (1,6,11) depending on whichrooftop you measure from.2.4 and 5GHz license-free Wifi is license free because the frequencies are shared with the ISM (Industrial/Scientific/Medical) services. In an industrial area, competing WiFi is the least of your worries. These frequencies are also used by industrial grade heating units. Got anyone in the neighbourhood running a large plastic shrink wrap machine, for example?
Motion sensors also run in the 2.4GHz range.
You can't directly detect these other users with a Wifi transceiver. Depending on the nature of the interference you *might* be able to hear it directly on a scanner (if you can find one that covers those frequencies), but you really need a good spectrum analyzer to tell what's going on. Anyway, don't assume the competition for spectrum is only other Wifi units. --lyndon
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- Re: Wireless bridge, (continued)
- Re: Wireless bridge Roy (Jun 18)
- Re: Wireless bridge Curtis Maurand (Jun 18)
- Re: Wireless bridge Joel Jaeggli (Jun 18)
- Re: Wireless bridge Charles Wyble (Jun 18)
- Re: Wireless bridge Michael Dillon (Jun 18)
- RE: Wireless bridge Peter Boone (Jun 18)
- RE: Wireless bridge Lyndon Nerenberg (Jun 18)
- RE: Wireless bridge Peter Boone (Jun 18)
- RE: Wireless bridge Peter Boone (Jun 18)
- Re: Wireless bridge Joel Jaeggli (Jun 18)
- RE: Wireless bridge Peter Boone (Jun 18)
- Re: Wireless bridge Curtis Maurand (Jun 18)
- Re: Wireless bridge Charles Wyble (Jun 18)
- RE: Wireless bridge Tim Huffman (Jun 18)
- RE: Wireless bridge John van Oppen (Jun 18)
- RE: Wireless bridge Bret Clark (Jun 18)
- Re: Wireless bridge Neil Harris (Jun 18)
- Re: Wireless bridge Chris Adams (Jun 18)
- Re: Wireless bridge Jay Hennigan (Jun 18)
- Re: Wireless bridge Joel Jaeggli (Jun 18)